Adalind looks distressed in that promo photo. I wonder if she and Nick are finally going to talk about the fact that her powers are returning?
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Looks like we’re going to get a lot of Nick and Hank dynamic duo this week! Hooray!
Not that I particularly approve some of the writing when it comes to the Nick/Adalind, as I agree it’s going too fast. But it seems that people are ignoring Adalind’s motives and her differences from Juliette. When Juliette first voged Nick was shocked and confused. But he was willing to help her and accept it, given some time. But Juliette wanted him to accept it right off and then she went bananas. And as we’ve heard said, being a Hexenbiest changes you. Adalind just wants to be a mom.
Actually, if you go back and watch, when Juliette first woged in front of Nick she was barely holding back tears and terrified the entire time. And do you know what he did? Instead of talking to her about it, about how she felt about it, about whether she was okay? He immediately started asking how she could get rid of it.
Which may make sense at first, but bear in mind that this is after Juliette has found out that she can’t get rid of it and she hasn’t really come to terms with that yet.
When she tells him this, that she’s already tried so hard to get rid of it before even telling him about it because she was terrified for her life? You know what Nick does then? Well, he makes it all about him. He’s mad that she didn’t come to him first, he’s upset that she’s like this forever (with no regard to how she must feel).
Then he walks out and leaves her there alone, crying.
The scene you’re referencing, where she wants him to “accept it right off” actually happens later, after he’s had time to think about this and what it means, and how he feels about it, and how she might feel about it.
People tend to conflate those two scenes and combine them in their minds and think that Juliette was too hasty, but Nick had time by that point. He was just too busy making it all about what this would mean for him to care about what it meant for Juliette. And that was one of the main factors that fueled her downward spiral.
If you go back and watch that whole mess, Nick at no point considers how Juliette must be feeling about this. She immediately becomes a problem to solve rather than a person with feelings, starting with the moment she reveals the truth to him. And in the moments when Juliette crosses lines, that’s what she’s thinking about. That’s not even my fanon interpretation. That’s canon.
When she pulls away from Nick and the team? It’s because Nick ran away from her and wouldn’t talk to her about it, but he told Hank and then basically forced her to tell the team whether or not she was ready.
When she laughs in his face after he says he still loves her? She tells him to answer his phone, go hunt down bad Wesen, be a Grimm, because that’s what he’s good at. She rejects the notion that he loves her as ludicrous. She’s realized it’s just empty words to him, and she tells him what made her realize this: that he has never been there for her the way she was there for him.
When she burns down the trailer? She remembers Nick’s rejection of her, his inability to accept what had happened to her even though this entire world of his is what caused it, and then she attacks the biggest connection to and symbol of that world he has.
When she sends that email to Kelly and sleeps with Kenneth in her old bed? She’s surrounded by the place that used to be her home, looking around it and remembering her life there with Nick, and she’s doing things that betray the emotional and physical connection they had: sleeping with another man in their bed, breaking his trust by luring his mother in for the Royals.
TL;DR: This kind of got off-topic, I guess, but the point is that no, Juliette did not want Nick to accept it right off. He had time, but Nick never actually tried to accept it or treated Juliette like anything but a problem after he found out, despite claiming to love her. Which is why many fans find his easy acceptance of the notion of Adalind–who he doesn’t know how he feels about and who has actually done a lot of damage to him and his (including Juliette, by the way) in the past–getting her powers back ridiculous.
Even though I agree with you with the whole “Adalind falling in love with Nick? What?” thing, if they worked on it a little more it would make complete sense- on Adalind’s part. She is very good at making poor life choices and she seems to always fall for a guy even though it might be a good idea to do so. Her falling in love with a guy who was her mortal enemy can be considered in-character for her.
I think you’re right in that it would be in character for Adalind. I’m really glad they didn’t have Nick be all suddenly gung-ho in love though, because it would have been terribly out of character for him, even if they didn’t have the history they have.
And I still don’t think they developed it enough for it to make sense for either of them to feel anything except cautiously amicable toward one another at this point. I’m not sure they can go back and fix it now, because they just rushed it for whatever reason and now a lot of fans are left scratching their heads going “where exactly did that come from?”
A couple of episodes ago she was perking up at the sound of Meisner’s name and blushingly, hopefully asking Trubel whether he’d ever mentioned her, and now she’s in love with Nick? Not attracted to, not beginning to have feelings for, in love.
Adalind may be a lot of things, but sentimental she’s not. This direction at this juncture doesn’t make any sense for her and is horrible for Nick. I just don’t know what to do with it except throw up my hands and try to watch around it for the rest of the plot.
“I know there’s seven keys. I know they lead to something that was buried, in the 13th century. Do you know what it is?”
I’m over here going ‘Nick don’t put your bleeding finger on the dirty, cobweb covered 800+ year old chest, how do you still have your hands?’
Shhh it’s okay he has a magical stick now he’ll be fine.
Also this is the guy who pierced his ear with something from the trailer and then poured dubious yellow magic powder into the bloody wound, so.
Grimm Sneak Peak: Nick and Monroe in “Into the Schwarzwald”
I feel that when Nick tells Kelly the whole story about him and Adalind, Kelly will the first to suggest therapy to Nick.
Sadly, I find it more likely that Kelly will grow up knowing his parents’ story and thinking of his dad’s messed-up life as normal. Especially if they continue with this whole “hiding from the world” thing they’ve been doing. Has the kid ever even been outside?
Do you think that Nick has a limit on how much trauma he can handle and then goes “Screw it”? So after Juliette’s descent, Kelly’s death, Kelly’s birth, Trubel, and now the uprising, he’s just in “Screw it” mode?
I don’t know if Nick has reached “screw it” mode yet so much as he’s running on autopilot. He hasn’t even had time to reach the level of emotional doneness that leads to “screw it” mode. I think he’s dealing with each thing as it comes and not really processing each fresh burden or trauma…and yes, I do think there’s a limit. Nick is still human, after all. There’s only so much most of us can take before we break down. I hope he has a chance to stop, take stock, and deal before he gets to that point.


















